Data Scientist Resume Keywords

Top 20 skills in data scientist job postings

1. 1

   Python
   76% of postings60% as required
2. 2

   SQL
   61% of postings48% as required
3. 3

   Machine learning
   36% of postings33% as required
4. 4

   R
   26% of postings24% as required
5. 5

   Data visualization
   15% of postings13% as required
6. 6

   Data science
   15% of postings14% as required
7. 7

   Spark
   13% of postings10% as required
8. 8

   scikit-learn
   12% of postings10% as required
9. 9

   Data analysis
   12% of postings11% as required
10. 10

    PyTorch
    12% of postings10% as required
11. 11

    Causal inference
    11% of postings10% as required
12. 12

    Databricks
    11% of postings8% as required
13. 13

    Statistical modeling
    10% of postings9% as required
14. 14

    pandas
    9% of postings7% as required
15. 15

    Tableau
    9% of postings6% as required
16. 16

    Statistical analysis
    8% of postings7% as required
17. 17

    TensorFlow
    8% of postings8% as required
18. 18

    Snowflake
    8% of postings7% as required
19. 19

    Statistics
    8% of postings8% as required
20. 20

    NLP
    8% of postings5% as required

Source: public postings from employer career sites collected by LetMeApply. Skills are read from each posting with AI and merged across spellings (for example, AWS and Amazon Web Services). Each employer counts at most 3 times, so one company hiring in bulk does not skew the list.